[{166b}] Mountains near Athens.
[{166c}] A mountain between Geranea and Corinth.
[{166d}] A high mountain in Arcadia, to the west of Elis. Erymanthus another, bordering upon Achaia. Taygetus another, reaching northwards, to the foot of the mountains of Arcadia.
[{167}] See Homer’s “Iliad,” book xiii. 1. 4
[{168}] See note on this in a former dialogue.
[{169}] It is reported of Empedocles, that he went to Ætna, where he leaped into the fire, that he might leave behind him an opinion that he was a god, and that it was afterwards discovered by one of his sandals, which the fire cast up again, for his sandals were of brass. See Stanley’s “Lives of the Philosophers.” The manner of his death is related differently by different authors. This was, however, the generally received fable. Lucian, with an equal degree of probability, carries him up to the moon.
[{170}] See Homer’s Odyssey, b. xvi. 1. 187. The speech of Ulysses to his son, on the discovery.
[{171}] When Empedocles is got into the moon, Lucian makes him swear by Endymion in compliment to his sovereign lady.
[{172a}] Agathocles.
[{172b}] Stratonice.